Joey Barton is open to exploring the free agent market to find a new winger for Bristol Rovers after he fell just short of his recruitment target for the summer.
Bristol Rovers secured 10 incoming transfers over the summer, adding six permanent players and four loans, three of the latter arriving on last Thursday's deadline day - Bobby Thomas, Sylvester Jasper and Josh Coburn - to reinforce the squad.
Barton admits he would have liked to bring in a left-sided centre-back and another wide player, alongside Jasper, following the departure of Sam Nicholson and loan returns of Elliot Anderson and Luke Thomas, but the search proved unsuccessful.
